According to Foucault:________________?
Correct answer: C. Discourses constitute authority and knowledge and post-structuralists use the term discourses to mean that the link between knowledge and power is mutually Constitutive
- A. Discourses constitute authority and knowledge
- B. Discourses are irrelevant
- C. Discourses constitute authority and knowledge and post-structuralists use the term discourses to mean that the link between knowledge and power is mutually Constitutive
- D. 'The state' is the most important element in international politics
Explanation
For Foucault, discourse and power are mutually constitutive: discourses shape what is accepted as knowledge while also producing and legitimising authority. Option c includes this crucial knowledge-power relationship, whereas option a is incomplete.
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